staging: add Lustre file system client support
Lustre is the most deployed distributed file system
in the HPC (High Performance Computing) world. The patch
adds its client side support.
The code is not very clean and needs to live in drivers/staging
for some time for continuing cleanup work. See
drivers/staging/lustre/TODO for details.
The code is based on Lustre master commit faefbfc04
commit faefbfc0460bc00f2ee4c1c1c86aa1e39b9eea49
Author: Alex Zhuravlev <alexey.zhuravlev@intel.com>
Date: Tue Apr 30 23:05:21 2013 +0400
LU-3244 utils: tunefs.lustre should preserve virgin label
Plus a few under-review patches on Whamcloud gerrit:
3.8 kernel support:
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5973
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5974
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5768
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5781
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5763
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5613
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5655
3.9 kernel support:
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5898
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5899
Kconfig/Kbuild:
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4646
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4644
libcfs cleanup:
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,2831
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4775
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4776
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4777
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4778
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4779
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4780
All starting/trailing whitespaces are removed, to match kernel
coding style. Also ran scripts/cleanfile on all lustre source files.
[maked the Kconfig depend on BROKEN as the recent procfs changes causes
this to fail - gregkh]
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/TODO b/drivers/staging/lustre/TODO
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22742d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/TODO
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+* Possible remaining coding style fix.
+* Remove deadcode.
+* Seperate client/server functionality. Functions only used by server can be
+ removed from client.
+* Clean up libcfs layer. Ideally we can remove include/linux/libcfs entirely.
+* Clean up CLIO layer. Lustre client readahead/writeback control needs to better
+ suit kernel providings.
+* Add documents in Documentation.
+* Other minor misc cleanups...
+
+Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>, Andreas Dilger
+<andreas.dilger@intel.com> and Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>. CCing
+hpdd-discuss <hpdd-discuss@lists.01.org> would be great too.
